States Quotes · Page 803

The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the…

— Douglas Massey

Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13…

— Paul Foster Case

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher…

— Thomas Aquinas

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations,…

— Kadmi Cohen

We are the United States of America. And it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't…

— Hillary Clinton

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not…

— Margaret Thatcher

Buddha says: Remember, you have to do much, but the ultimate always happens when you are not doing anything. It happens in…

— Rajneesh

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept…

— Alan Furst

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

— Khoi Vinh

What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a…

— Jello Biafra

A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our…

— R. Carlos Nakai

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.

— Walter Russell

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through…

— Judith Butler

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

— Lawrence Lessig

I don't think bulk data collection was an enormous factor here, because generally, that deals with overseas calls to the United States.…

— Michael Leiter

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things…

— Rush Limbaugh

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates,…

— Eban Goodstein

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very…

— Gore Vidal

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

— Eckhart Tolle

I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have…

— BeBe Winans

For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in…

— Hans Blix

The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A…

— Jacob Burckhardt